It makes sense to build smart! What we build for you will give you a return on your investment with significantly lower utility bills, as well as transferable discounts on your power bills for the life of the home. This example of building smart represents ultimate value for our clients and is why we have partnered with Energy Star to make every home certified. Enjoy the posts below to see our promises turn into action.
The Alexandra Cottage – semi-custom plan
All of our semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price:Starting on your lot for $502,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, NC Green Built Home, Universally Designed plan
The Alexandra cottage is a universally designed home that not only boasts a quaint craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all size and ages. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
The Ava Simone Gallery
The Ava Simone – semi-custom plan
All of semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price: Starting on your lot at $519,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, NC Green Built Home, Universally Designed plan
The Ava Simone is an alternate to the popular Alexandra model which affords a little extra entertainment area with one less bedroom. This home has a similar “feel” to our popular Rockcliff plan but in the Alexandra price point. This universally designed home that not only boasts a quaint craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all size and ages. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
What It Takes to Be a Green Home Builder
Today’s new homes reflect changing market preferences and integrate elaborate designs and consumer desires into the floor plans and construction of the homes. And successful home builders have the knowledge, organizational skills and drive to build them.
But what does it really take to build a house?
Like a CEO, a home builder relies on a number of workers to get the job done right. A home builder guides dozens of skilled artisans and professionals, including carpenters, architects, engineers, plumbers, electricians, painters and landscapers. The builder must understand all of the home’s complex systems and know enough about each contractor’s trade in order to coordinate this skilled team to build and sell a quality product.
Some home builders develop the land on which the homes are built. In this capacity, they act as the land surveyor. They look at a piece of land to determine whether it complies with zoning regulations, local planning laws and environmental restrictions, and whether it is suitable for development. The home builder studies the lot’s topography, searching for rock outcroppings, shallow depth bedrock, shallow groundwater, natural drainage sources and dense vegetation. Landscaping options and erosion control also have to be considered. Once a builder determines that a site is suitable for construction, they must navigate the permitting process.
The Skylar Grande – semi-custom plan
All of our semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price: Starting on your lot at $535,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, NC Green Built Home, Universally designed plan
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The Skylar Grande is an upgrade to our popular Skylar model that adds a screen porch, formal dining room, and a stone chimney. It is a universally designed home that not only boasts a quaint craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all size and ages. Since it has two bedrooms with two full baths on the main level, it works great for families with younger children, but since it also has two bedrooms upstairs, it also works well for the next generation to accommodate guests or a home office. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
Building with the Living Stone team
The Rockcliff – semi-custom plan
All of our semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price: starting on a crawl at $651,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, NC Green Built Home, Universally Designed plan
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The Rockcliff is a universally designed home that not only boasts a more rustic craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all sizes and ages. Since it has two bedrooms with two full baths on the main level, the flex bedroom can be used as a home office for the work-from-home professional. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
The Woodhaven- semi-custom plan
All of our semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price: Starting on your lot at $662,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, Healthy Built Home, Universally Designed plan
The Woodhaven is a universally designed home that not only boasts a more rustic craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all sizes and ages. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
Living Stone Featured in Carolina Home & Garden Magazine
Challenge of the Century : How to update a 100-year-old house without disturbing an inch of antique charm
Winter 2011 Issue
Visually residing somewhere between a village cottage and a mountain farmhouse, the sharp-gabled Montreat residence owned by Rick and Meredith Harbaugh was built in 1909. Used for many years as a summer home, it features only one add-on, a cluster of rooms accrued in the ’40s. Interestingly, that area is in worse shape than the century-old bulk of the house, according to architect Maury Hurt.
Asheville Builder uses Superior Wall Foundation for moderate mountain lots
Superior Walls foundations feature patented, insulated, precast concrete wall panels that are formed in a factory-controlled setting and delivered to the new home job site, where the panels are lifted into position with a crane and carefully bolted together and sealed. The walls are custom-designed and built to virtually any architectural style, complete with window and door openings.
Superior Walls foundations are dry, using a special low water/cement ratio concrete that requires no additional dampproofing. They are warm, with full-length insulation built in to increase energy efficiency. Superior Walls high strength 5000+ psi concrete is reinforced with steel rebar and polypropylene fibers for added strength and performance. The wall panels also feature convenient features like built-in accesses for wiring and stud facings for easy drywall installation with screws. Another important feature for builders is the speed of installation. A typical home foundation can be installed in less than one day. For more information click here: